# Insights on the meaning of safety from Professor Jonathan Haidt's book, "The Coddling of the American Mind," are featured

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Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/shanesnow/2020/05/04/how-psychological-safety-actually-works/#42134896f864) -- "As NYU moral psychology professor [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt) and his co-author Greg Lukianoff put it, 'A culture that allows the concept of ‘safety’ to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in everyday life that they need in order to become strong and healthy.'”

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